by David WeberAfter working on his website for so long, I thought that I should read one of his books. This isn't spectacular, but it's pretty decent sword & sorcery stuff.

Main Pro: I really like to read about compenent people. The main character here is a very skillful warrior barbarian thing. He's a seven-foot-tall berserker, and he's not only essentially unstoppable, he's also really intelligent. Great. Not deep, but it's a lot of fun to read.

Main Con: Weber starts building his fantasy mythology from scratch here. I wasn't really sure that he gained anything by making up new names for barbarian berserker races and inventing a new pantheon, &c.